https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Becoming-respectable https://booksandideas.net/Becoming-respectable 2024-01-02T08:00:00Z text/html en Béatrice Bouillon Society youth women campagne rural Cairn.info <p>How do working-class and lower middle-class women experience their youth in rural environments? Based on a study of several rural and exurban spaces, Yaelle Amsellem-Mainguy revisits the question of women's social trajectories.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Fortunetellers-and-Teahouse-Workers https://booksandideas.net/Fortunetellers-and-Teahouse-Workers 2020-04-09T07:00:00Z text/html en Di Wang International China labour history working class ethnography migration Books and ideas originals rural <p>Is there a better way than drinking tea and chatting in a local teahouse to get a sense of everyday life in Sichuan's capital city? A historian of Chengdu and tea culture explains the role of teahouses in public life and the business opportunities they offer to migrant workers.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Georges-Duby-Pleiade-scholar-and-popular https://booksandideas.net/Georges-Duby-Pleiade-scholar-and-popular 2019-12-27T08:00:00Z text/html en Ariel Suhamy History women Middle Ages Institut français history of ideas Text Interviews history of mentalities rural <p>For the first time, the Pléiade collection is publishing the work of a contemporary historian. This event celebrates the centennial of the birth of this great mediaevalist, a historian of mentalities who found a way to make historical knowledge accessible to a wider audience. Felipe Brandi, an expert on Duby, edited and annotated the book.</p>